European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 05, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Civilians a a a i 1 to a it of of h to to flt a a it it a re i y Uon it f n of Jwj wami or Tinl a in if in in we Uhny w at twit in horn1 at of Jet no Naty kit a Iasi nails n i nil of a suite Aso bul Over there i lived out ill a Dufton Haj and i could rat Romo Ribor where i was leaving Tut and i was always shuffling stuff Back and Forth Bui pm Felt appreciated by he soldiers a we were citing through the same thing they wore going through said Summers who added that in spite of his paunch i Tell really accepted Over there wearing a uniform Summers eventually moved into a tent with some other civilians Quot i did i realize valued my privacy so much he Quot said. Quot even with other civilians you Hod no privacy. His biggest problem arose when his Lour in saudi. Arabia ended. / -/.,. A. I had trouble when i left Quot he said. Quot i did no to want to say ,. Goodbye there was a camaraderie. And i missed it alter i got / / a a / a a a. A Ahe contrasted his experience in saudi Arabia with the. Lour months he spent in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam As am Quot Young and curious weapons come civilian in 1968,. Shortly after the Tot offensive. A a a a a. I r Quot the difference was night and Day Quot Summers did no to know what the purpose was Over there in desert storm was Quot serious business Quot he said. Quot everybody was worried about chemicals. It was always a Quot big1 concern.�?T1 a a a a a a a. A a a in addition there was a lot of work to do he said. Quot they had to build everything people were working around the clock. It was real neat to be around. It seemed like Vietnam a brought out the worst in the military. I was disgusted by Quot some of the military there/1 did t like some of their. / attitudes. I can t say that about saudi at a. Civilians in saudi Arabia Quot were doing what we could to help Quot he said Quot and being older most of them the troops wore you Tig enough to be our sons we did extra. Thing a to in Sig. He to pick up items for soldiers / was a common Lavor civilians performed. / a a a / a / Quot every Day was one Day at a time Quot said Summers whose to it o Bee am e 1 Thi s sure is hell but i think i can do it 1 _ contributing to this report staff writer Luke Britt in saudi Arabia sailors on the aircraft Carrier Saratoga carry a missile to an aircraft. T i a a. Continued from Page 15. A time the shop Tang War began iraqi forces had lost most old their supplies and spare parts. A a a a a. A Navy sea lift a flips while criticized initially As a. Inadequate and too slow carried 95 percent of the . Military cargo to saudi Arabia. And a a Marine equipment repositioned aboard Nav warehouse ships was among the first heavy arms to a arrive in the theater. A a a a a a. A a a a moreover Many experts arrival of the -. Aircraft earner Independence in the it of of Mamon aug-7 with dissuading Iraq forces from lunging farther South toward saudi Arabia. Dayi the Dwight d. Eisenhower moved through the Suez canal bringing .1.64 a aircraft within striking Range of iraq., a /. /. /. A -. A. Barry Posen a defense analyst at the Massachusetts a /. A Institute of technology concedes that Quot it does pot lock like the Navy s contribution on the offensive Side was very important to this War Quot but he argues that the Navy simply a a a has not prepared itself for offensive bombing missions a / ,. Quot look at what exactly Navy air has been training munitions Lor All these years a. Posen says. Quot their / idea is that they steam around in the open oceans and attack naval targets ashore such As ports and naval airfields that �?�., they fight other people s navies at sea and defend their a a y / / Carrier s and Ain Phinious forces from assault. The kinds of missions the air Force does the of Tensive bombing that seemed to make such a difference Here this is stuff they re i to Ruif v of a h or Ltd a of it or. Of Mill �-./ of their la percent of the Overall rur forces m tie in Oahu a and dropped Only a Liny Frac Lton a Well under 10 percent a of the smart bombs Quot that appeared to make is Ich a difference in the outcome. A indeed what the Navy considers one of its most sparkling offensive achievement the first Ever firing of Tomahawk cruise missiles from Navy ships in the opening Days of the. War sparked debate inside the Navy and put. A. To $ t .35 million apiece each Tomahawk was equal Only to. The firepower of a $100.000. 1.000-Pound bomb and with an accuracy that was outstripped by other aircraft. Navy planners say that the cruise missiles could be used Day or. Night on targets and in weather that no current aircraft would. Brave. But one military planner still scoffs that the use of ,. Tomahawks was stunt in a Par with the air Force a use of stealth fighters during the 1989 Panama operation. A a. Among some Navy use of the tomahawks. A. Rekindled Long held ears that the unmanned cruise missiles a would undercut the rationale for new Carrier based the at 2. -. A the problem the Navy created for itself a Mitsy Posen says Quot is that it proved that Many of the targets you would customarily have allocated to a deep attack aircraft. A can be successfully engaged by a Tomahawk which can be widely distributed across the Fleet. To the a a thais True you undercut the argument that you need Large deck carriers to / /. / Quot a a Quot that May be a hard lesson for the Navy to Swallow Quot. Aposen adds Quot you could argue that tomahawks last. Nails in the coffins of the a-6 and the a-12 strike aircraft a a. Retired rear j. Carroll a former Carrier a a. Skipper who is Deputy director of tie Washington based Center for defense information warns that the Navy May be sowing the seeds of its own future weakness. Its reluctance to restructure the Fleet for smaller regional Battles in Waters such As the persian Gulf May weaken / the service s ability to compete in the budget Battles to /. A. Come. Carroll says. At 1 a a. Quot in its procurement program the Navy is clinging to the. Image of an enemy that is very imposing very advanced quota Carroll argues Quot we have to have subs Hunt their. A. A. Subs under the ice stealth aircraft that can sneak up on. Them ships that can spot attackers at 200 Miles for the big. Blue Waler slug est Iri which the Best systems will prevail. We just Don t have a Navy that s tailored to fight regional conflicts a at an affordable Cost. / /. I Quot and in we keep buying these High tech marvels we re a going to. Price of the Competition with the air. Force the army and the Marine corps Quot a a readers action Lin reason for forgiving soldiers Are Loans a a Slipp Orler of a , a Lioe was i read that Allaer Loans Given from. / a August 1990 Ali Rouglin february 1991 were converted into a. Grants. Quot i a during my three year tour in Europe saw a tight listed / a a Are lending policy. Soldiers who desired to attend / grandpa serifs Lurie rals where often unable to receive Loans do tag my three years at fort Lewis wash., i saw an a Bxs remedy loan policy. Deserving soldiers were Able to got Loans for everything from car repairs to airline tickets Lor Tuno Ial attendance. A it under standing that operations desert shield and desert. Storm created acid tonal financial Many �., families. I could accept into a fails fort a desert shield related expenses Fani ily . A however to convert Ai loan s to Grants Arrn wide was. Ilid Lcou. Are chapters have the capability to screen Loans and list Guise to Otwool Loans Liat wore related Quot shield and those that were not. Forgiving Keans army wide a a. Resulted in countless soldiers who had absolutely nothing to do with operation desert shield receiving the same / break As the soldiers who were involved a. A in my eight years in the service i have personally Given a More Ilian $-100 to Are As a company commander i a personally pushed Are and did my Best to raise As much. Money As possible instead of working to build the Are. A Quot pot Quot to enable More soldiers to receive Loans Are a. Frivolously converted millions of dollars in Loans into giants. By doing so. They have showed me that they have Money a a to Burn and Don t need my contribution they won t get it a9a�?~n capt. William m. Snyder Dhahran saudi Arabia a Leonard j. Harmon ii Deputy director army _ emergency Relief Alexandria va., replies Early last fall army emergency Relief Are started c Quot being contacted , businesses a from outside the army who wanted Toile up soldiers / a involved in desert shield and their families. Contributions started to arrive in november specifically earmarked for z desert Shiell storm soldiers and their families we had no idea How Muffi. Money we would eventually receive. -our/director., Nathaniel r. Thompson to decided that Are would not end up Richer As a result of these a / contributions the would All be used to Heip soldiers and their families. How to Best use these a anticipated donations had decided. If we started to a give All Grants soldiers would have been in line outside. / Are . Pc / a /. If we Only helped soldiers who actually went to saudi in would not by fair a id the other soldiers whose units were alerted but not Send nor would it be fair for those who Quot worked hard in conus Continental United slates and overseas readying units shipping a a a a. Equipment Etc while deciding what to do we stopped All collection reaction on a a Loans to families of soldiers in a saudi / /,/./-/ a Quot Quot a / a a / a Quot before Long we tied received almost a million dollars with More promised , but happily the. Ground War ended alter 100 hours. I / our Board of managers with the approval of the Ai my a. Chief of staff decided that Are would take action that was in the bests interest of the soldiers their families and a the army As a whole and would Only help people no a. Individual would be Hurt by what we m the decision made to forgive the april1. Balance s a owed on All Loans made by Are to All Active duty soldiers and of Weir family members Between aug. 1 and feb 2.8 _. Our Board because it believed that desert storm was a team Effort by at soldiers not just those who deployed also included were army Reserve and National guard soldiers who were activated Lor desert storm the team Effort was a hire one. a / / a a / a our conversion of Loans ended up helping 33,000 soldiers and their families to 1.5 million in Loans while we have not yet received that arho unt of. Money in contributions Foh desert storm we have a lot of Ous from american Popw who want to Honor their / a soldiers by doing More than buying bumper stickers and wearing to shirts. reasonably confident that the a a entire amount will be covered. In the end Are will be no a Richer than when desert shield started and the funds will not have to come from the Normal contributors to Are -4 soldiers Active and retired., and their families. V / every army family did not need Are help during that period. who did not were fortunate. If a family had a n e in e r g e hey 1 in an Cial need our help was there for. Them. We at and the amid leadership believe what we did regarding this Forg eness of Loans was right and. In the beef interests of soldiers and their families. We j Hope Alt your readers do. Too / a. A a a to write us a Reeders action line is he readers Quot court of last resort Quot striving to answer some of the questions. A _ about life. Overseas to a military environment or -. Questions about policies and guidelines when other. Avenues for answers Are not if you have a question and Don t know where to turn for the answer wite to readers action line co the stars and step Serapo 09211-421,1 All letters must be a / signed in preference will be. Given to those seeking information of Genera interest to our readers. / _. Page 16 the stars and stripes wednesday june_5,1991 a
